Practical Guide: The First 3 Steps to Supply Chain Automation

Automation has the potential to transform supply chain processes, but organizations lack the correct data about the process to be optimized. Stop spending up to 70% of your time on inefficient manual processes and begin your supply chain automation journey with this handy guide.

Supply chain teams spend the majority of their time fire-fighting using Excel, phone calls, and meetings. These inefficient execution processes are not just frustrating for your teams and your customers, they represent a huge black hole in the data you need to automate supply chain.

Systematically capture and resolve exceptions

Focus on one product family or region

Automating the end-to-end supply chain can seem like a daunting task. Start small to drive quicker time-to-value.

"I am extremely proud of the steps Corning has taken over the past few years to optimize supply chain. And with Elementum, built by some of the brightest minds in the industry, we have the levers to be truly agile."

Cheryl Capps
VP of Global Supply Chain, Corning

Why "do nothing" is not an option

For a Fortune 500 company, the impact of supply chain optimizations easily exceeds a billion dollars a year, from higher revenue capture, to drastically reduced inventory and significant productivity gains.

The disruptive nature of automation technologies would also redefine the competitive landscape, with laggards struggling to stay relevant in much the same way that brick-and-mortar stores have fallen in the face of Amazon’s digital dominance.

Elementum is the software-as-a-service company behind the first cloud-native supply chain automation platform. In today’s world, instant gratification trumps brand loyalty. To survive, brands must connect across their extended ecosystem so they can operate in real-time and deliver at the speed of customer demand. By digitally mapping the $25T product economy, Elementum’s platform sheds light on the flow of goods around the world, and facilitates cross-ecosystem execution to ensure that products are available at the right time, place, quantity, and cost.